🤖 Automated AI News Video Creation and Social Media Publishing Workflow
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🎯 Overview:
This workflow fully automates the creation and social media distribution of AI-generated news videos. It fetches news, crafts captions, generates avatar videos via HeyGen, stores them, and publishes them across Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube via Postiz.
🔄 WORKFLOW PROCESS:
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News Fetching: Read the latest news from an RSS feed.
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AI Captioning: Generates concise, engaging captions using an AI agent (GPT-4o-mini).
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Video Generation: Creates an AI avatar video using HeyGen with the generated caption.
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Video Storage: Downloads the video and uploads it to Google Drive for archive.
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Data Logging: Records all news and video metadata into Google Sheets.
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Postiz Upload: Uploads the video to Postiz's internal storage for publishing.
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Social Publishing: Fetches Postiz integrations and routes the video to Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube after platform-specific content cleaning.
⚙️ KEY TECHNOLOGIES:
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RSS Feeds: News source.
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LangChain (n8n nodes): AI Agent and Chat OpenAI for caption generation.
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HeyGen API: AI avatar video creation.
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Google Drive: Video file storage.
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Google Sheets: Data logging and tracking.
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Postiz API: Unified social media publishing platform.
⚠️CRITICAL CONFIGURATIONS:
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API Keys: Ensure HeyGen and Postiz API keys are correctly set in credentials and the 'Setup Heygen Parameters' node.
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HeyGen IDs: Verify
avatar_id and voice_id in 'Setup Heygen Parameters'.
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Postiz URL: Confirm
https://postiz.yourdomain.com is your correct Postiz instance URL across all HTTP Request nodes.
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Credentials: All Google, OpenAI, and Postiz credentials must be properly linked.
📈BENEFITS:
- Automated content creation and distribution, saving significant time.
- Consistent branding and messaging across multiple platforms.
- Centralized logging for tracking and performance analysis.
- Scalable solution for high-volume content demands.
